What is "perri"

Perri is a surname or given name, and may refer to:

As a surname:

• Christina Perri, American singer
• Dominic Perri, Canadian politician
• Fortunato N. Perri Jr., attorney
• Jack Perri (born 1975), men's basketball head coach
• Leslie Perri (died 1970), American science fiction fan, writer and illustrator
• Nick Perri, guitarist
• Oreste Perri (born 1951), Italian sprint canoer and politician
• Paul Perri, Canadian-American actor
• Rocco Perri (1887–1944), organized crime figure
• Sandro Perri, Canadian rock and electronic musician

As a given name:

• Perri 6, noted British social scientist
• Perri Kiely (born 1995), British street dancer
• Perri Klass, American pediatrician and writer
• Perri Lister (born 1959), English actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, former model and screenwriter
• Perri O'Shaughnessy, American crime novelist
• Perri "Pebbles" Reid (born 1964), American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer
• Perri Peltz (born 1961), television journalist
• Perri Pierre (born 1988), award-winning filmmaker and actor
• Perri Shakes-Drayton (born 1988), British track and field athlete

In other uses:

• Perri (film), a 1957 Disney film based on the Salten novel
• Perri (novel), by Felix Salten

Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel is a 1938 novel by Felix Salten, author of Bambi, a Life in the Woods, and is a followup to that book. Its title character is an Eurasian red squirrel. Bambi makes a brief appearance in Perri.

The novel was first published in English translation in 1938 because the German-language edition printed in Vienna was confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. Only in 1942 the book appeared in German language, published by Müller in Zürich, illustrated by Hans Bertle. The book was translated also into Swedish in 1940 and into French in 1971.

In 1957, Walt Disney adapted it into a True Life Fantasy of the same name.

Perri is a 1957 film from Walt Disney Productions, based on Felix Salten's 1938 Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel. It was the company's fifth feature entry in their True Life Adventures series, and the only one to be labeled a True Life Fantasy. In doing so, the Disney team combined the documentary aspects of earlier efforts with fictional scenarios and characters.

The story's title character is a young female squirrel who learns about forest life, and finds a mate in Porro, a male squirrel. In the film, there are seasons called the Time of Beauty, Time of Peace, and Together Time.

Instead of the European forest in which Salten set his work, a nine-man camera crew led by Paul Kenworthy and Ralph Wright shot Perri in Utah's Uinta National Forest and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (for the winter sequences). Some 200,000 feet were shot during production; only 8,000 were used in the finished product.

True Life regular Winston Hibler not only continued as the series narrator, but for this film also served as a screenwriter, songwriter and producer.

Upon its release, Perri was generally well received by critics and audiences. Along with all of the other True Life Adventures, it premiered in December 2006 on Disney DVD as part of the Legacy Collection.